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‘We’re Coming Home’
It was an unusual request for the drab, staid confines of Eureka City Council Chambers. “Do I have time to sing you a song?” she asked from the podium. “Sure,” then Mayor Frank Jager replied. With that, Cheryl Seidner, a Wiyot tribal elder, clad in a traditional knit cap, tilted her head back, eyes closed,…
New Owner and Lebanese Menu for Folie Douce
Before you go into full panic, the artichoke cheesecake is still on the menu. Plenty else, however, has changed. On Nov. 26, 2017, Reda Salhi took over the kitchen at Arcata institution Folie Douce (though escrow has yet to close), shifting its menu toward Lebanese specialties like shawarma and kofta, while keeping a handful of the…
Entertainment Tonight: Wednesday, Jan. 30
As many quotes as there are about music nourishing the soul and giving meaning to our lives, there are just as many less flowery and more matter-of-fact sentiments about the importance of eating well and its effect on good health. As boring as it may be, eating well is a vitally important idea and there…
Music Tonight: Tuesday, Jan. 29
Violinist Kev Marcus and violist Wil B. form an instrumental hip-hop duo from Florida called Black Violin. Both men are classically trained musicians who favor a portmanteau of beats, elegant bars and musical passages. The resulting sound has a good amount of spectacle to it but never gets lost in kitsch or mired in novelty,…
Task Force Finds 6 Pounds of Heroin in Bust
The Humboldt County Drug Task Force is continuing its record string of heroin seizures. The task force reported this morning that agents served a search warrant at a residence in the 500 block of Warren Creek Road in Arcata and located approximately 6 pounds of suspected heroin, as well as $6,000 in cash believed to…
Music Tonight: Monday, Jan. 28
Arrington de Dionyso is the brains as well as embouchure behind the free and world jazz protest act This Saxophone Kills Fascists. He returns to The Outer Space tonight at 7 p.m. to blow down the walls of the proverbial modern American Jericho with his godly horn. Joining him will be local sound collective Medicine…
King Tides Preview Sea Level Rise (Slideshow)
For three days last week, Humboldt Bay was filled to the brim — and then some — by 8-and-a-half-foot king tides. Typical high tides in our section of the coast run 6 to 7 feet. The extra foot or two of water backed up the many sloughs that run into Humboldt Bay, changing pasturelands into…
HumBug: Archaeognatha
When I set out to take a couple of photos of the jumping bristletails on the back of my garage, I was not prepared for what I got. They’re interesting for being such an old order. The name Archaeognatha means “ancient jaw.” This refers to the primitive structure of their jaw. Jumping bristletails are one…
Black Violin
Classically trained stringed instrumentalists Kevin Sylvester and Wilner Baptiste are Black Violin, a violin and viola-playing duo, bringing their genre-busting blend of classical, hip-hop, rock, R&B and bluegrass to the Arkley Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday, Jan. 29 at 7 p.m. ($39).
Music Tonight: Sunday, Jan. 27
I’m not usually a fan of movie musicals and with very few exceptions I avoid the genre like anything else that floats in the confluence of the waters of maudlin sentiment and big production budgets. However, I am not made of stone and even though I am not made of felt and fabric either, I…
HumCo Health Officials Eyeing Measles Outbreak in Washington, Bracing for the Worst
Humboldt County officials are activating a response protocol amid a measles outbreak in a Washington state suburb of Portland that has seen at least 31 people contract the highly contagious viral disease. “We’re basically bracing ourselves, crossing our fingers and hoping this doesn’t happen but making sure we’re prepared if it does,” said Humboldt County…
Music Tonight: Saturday, Jan. 26
The Alibi hosts a dirty punk and folk affair late this evening at 11 p.m. Newish group The Bow-Legged Buzzards feature the fiddlin’ and gravel-voiced talented bravado of front-fellow Phill Irvine, while The Bored Again is the greatest one-man bass playing punk band ever to be fronted by a guy named Dave. Just $3 gets…
Lawson Feels Son’s Case is Moving Toward an Arrest After Meeting with DA
Charmaine Lawson said she emerged from a meeting with the Humboldt County District Attorney’s Office yesterday feeling the investigation into her son’s 2017 stabbing death is moving “in the direction of an arrest” and that she’s “somewhat satisfied” with the case’s progress. Charmaine Lawson has been publicly critical of law enforcement and prosecutors since her…
‘Sweet Victory’ for SpongeBob Fans at the Super Bowl? Stay Tuned
Fans of SpongeBob SquarePants aren’t looking back in their months-long effort to have “Sweet Victory” sung during half time at the Super Bowl as an ode to Stephen Hillenburg, creator of the fantastical world Bikini Bottoms, who died Nov. 27. More than 1 million people have signed the Change.org petition to honor the 57-year-old Humboldt…
Music Tonight: Friday, Jan. 25
Rosanne Cash is a woman who, over the course of 40 years of releasing records, writing books and playing concerts, has eclipsed her famous surname many times over with her formidable talent. That talent is for writing personal songs of darkness turned outwards and magnified universally until they have colored every listener with a sunglasses…
Off-Duty Civilian Coastie Rescues Surfer
An off-duty Coast Guard civilian employee helped rescue a surfer who’d lost his surfboard and was in distress this morning. According to a press release, Steven Bluntzer, a Sector Humboldt Bay civilian search and rescue controller who also happens to surf, saw an individual in distress, instructed bystanders to call 911 and headed in to…
UPDATED: Encampment Removal Operation Near the Bayshore Mall
Several agencies are “executing inspection/abatement and criminal search warrants” property near the Bayshore Mall, according to the Eureka Police Department. The operation began at 8 a.m. and prompted the closure of the mall entrance at Bayshore Way, the EPD release states. Blankets, clothes and shoes were hurriedly packed into gallon-sized garbage bags, as residents of…
San Francisco Gives Kindergartners Free Money for College. Could it Work Statewide?
Emelyn Jerónimo is only 12 years old, but she already has $3,000 saved toward college. Socked away by her mother in chunks of $100 or less since Jerónimo was in kindergarten, the money may not seem like much, but it’s helped fuel the San Francisco sixth-grader’s dreams of becoming a pediatrician. Jerónimo’s nest egg is…
Derby Underway
Hip check yourself. What are you doing this Saturday night? After more than 10 years of rolling hard, the Humboldt Roller Derby darlings are back for more skating action in 2019, rolling out their first game of the season — a double header — on Jan. 26 at 6 p.m. at Redwood Acres Fairgrounds ($15,…
Blue Lake Hoedown Barn Dance & Pie Contest
Bring your fork and dancing shoes for a night of eats and treats courtesy of the Blue Lake Saddle Club, Mad River Grange and the Humboldt Folklife Society at the Blue Lake Hoedown Barn Dance & Pie Contest Saturday, Jan. 26 from 7 to 10 p.m. at Prasch Hall in Blue Lake ($10, $5 Folklife…
Dream Weavers
If it twirls, swirls, inspires and fires your imagination, chances are it started with a little ink. After 40 years of “weaving the Arts into the fabric of our community,” the dreamers at the Ink People Center for the Arts are coming together with the community for its 40th anniversary party. Tapestry of Dreams, happening…
Music Tonight: Thursday, Jan. 24
There’s a modern folk and roots music show tonight at Phatsy Kline’s at 7 p.m. Margo Cilker is a Bay Area-based singer/songwriter who cuts her work from the patchwork cloth of current and yesteryear greats like Lucinda Williams and Woody Guthrie. Her band is on tour with similar Ore-Washington act An American Forrest and will…
Survival Strategies
Reviews THE FAVOURITE. Lanthimos is a writer and director of comedies not for the faint of heart. He makes movies I find hilarious; others seem to come away despondent at their misanthropy and absurdity. Some might call what he does psychological horror. But to me, the critical distinction lies in his emphasis on humor as…
Celery at Center Stage
An ingredient of Italian soffritto, French mirepoix and the Cajun holy trinity, celery is rarely at center stage in a recipe. We’ll change that in 2019. Celery has a long history that goes back to the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. A National Geographic article describes what Howard Carter, the archaeologist who discovered King Tutankhamun’s tomb…
Cancer, Part 2: Turtles, Birds and Rabbits
Last week, we looked at some of the many reasons why the diagnosis and treatment of cancer are so difficult and controversial. A common way of illustrating the problem is the “turtle-bird-rabbit” analogy. Although it can equally well apply to breast cancer (the most common cancer in women), here I’ll discuss it in relation to…
It’s Greed!
Editor: Citing a “survey of voters,” McKinleyville resident Edward Webb claims “we” feel helpless or are in denial over climate change, (Mailbox, Jan. 10). In reality, voter polls represent sharply divided minority-views demonstrated in last November’s election, despite the corrupt developer in the White House (“The Grifter In Chief,” Dec. 27). A generation of bipartisan…
Why I Marched
Editor: I joined the Women’s March on Jan. 19 because it’s a unique global phenomenon, one of the most visible and effective demonstrations of the upwelling of the feminine principle — in all genders. This upwelling comes out of a natural human instinct for self-preservation. Our survival as a species, and certainly any peace and…
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Editor: In light of the debacle surrounding the Women’s March I am reminded of the Hippocratic Oath for physicians dating back to between the third and fifth centuries B.C.: “Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm.” Perhaps the Hippocratic Oath…
Making it Official
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Editor: Coastal wetlands are critical when it comes to wildlife habitat and coastal protections. However, the filling of protected dune wetlands that follows vegetation removal programs has been happening unregulated and unmonitored for decades. If the plants being torn out are simply left to grow, peer-reviewed studies show wetland areas are actually created along with…
On the Go-Slow
Yielding to massive public pressure, the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors backed off from a giant re-zoning effort Jan. 15 and instead adopted a go-slow planning process that could take up to two years to implement. The previous plan, which involved re-zoning thousands of parcels with minimal notice to the public, had evoked hours of…
A Low Barr and a Cashed Bowl
In case you’ve been living under a rock — or just glaze over at the mere mention of Russia — the Senate Judiciary Committee held a confirmation hearing last week for President Trump’s attorney general nominee William Barr. While the vast majority of news coverage of the hearing focused on whether Barr would recuse himself…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): We might initially be inclined to ridicule Stuart Kettell, a British man who spent four days pushing a Brussels sprout up 3,560-foot-high Mount Snowden with his nose. But perhaps our opinion would become more expansive once we knew that he engaged in this stunt to raise money for a charity that…
Fiddles, Violins and Killer Sax
This week features a folk-heavy lineup of artists, as well as some odd ducks and assorted bright things. And because I have an interview with one of them elswhere in this issue and an album review in the works, I am going to be a man of few words in this intro and simply wish…
Maybe the Sun Will Come Out Today
There is a time when the sound of wet tires on Harris Street Comes as a surprise. Gravity has worked its irresistible craft On the water cycle, Leaving carbuncles dangling from the tips of the potted spruce. It goes on, And green returns to the carpet. It goes on, and chimney smoke begins to fight…
Gothically Feminine
Four-time Grammy winner and Nashville Songwriters’ Hall of Fame inductee Rosanne Cash plays with John Leventhal at the Arkley Center for the Performing Arts on Jan. 25 at 8 p.m. The Journal interviewed her by phone from Nashville about her newest album She Remembers Everything and her relationship with writing. North Coast Journal: What was…
Border Dispute
Neighbors can be odd. Next-door neighbors even more so. You’re not under the same roof, like siblings. But you are expected to get along with them, albeit for reasons of geography rather than genetics, and, like family, you don’t always get to choose them. In the comedy Native Gardens by Karen Zacarias, the first offering…
